Hillary Clinton

Many of you are well enough off that… the tax cuts may have helped you… We're saying that for America to get back on track, we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

Explaining her opposition to President Bush's tax cut in San Francisco (28 June 2004), 2001

And Israel is not only our ally; it is a beacon of what democracy can and should mean… If the people of the Middle East are not sure what democracy means, let them look to Israel.

Hanukkah dinner speech at Yeshiva University (December 2005), 2001

Like it or not, women are always subject to criticism if they show too much feeling in public.

Living History (June 9, 2003), 2001

He ran a gas station down in St. Louis… No, Mahatma Gandhi was a great leader of the 20th century.

Introducing a quotation by Indian leader Mahatma Gandhi, as reported in International Herald Tribune (21 January 2004), 2001

If you want to remain on this detail, get your fucking ass over here and grab those bags.

To an agent, as reported in The First Partner: Hillary Rodham Clinton (1999) by Joyce Milton, p. 259, 1999

You stupid f—ing moron. How could you risk your presidency for this?

To Bill Clinton, during the Monica Lewinsky scandal in 1998, as reported in NewsMax.com (9 December 2001), 1998

How could you be so damn stupid? How could you do that?

To Bill Clinton, in front of guests, as reported in U.S. News & World Report (5 February 1996), 1996

In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart.

Speech at the National Prayer Luncheon, reported in The New Yorker (30 May 1994), 1993

You know, everybody has setbacks in their life, and everybody falls short of whatever goals they might set for themselves. That's part of living and coming to terms with who you are as a person.

People interview (December 28, 1992), 1993

I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Quoted in Blood Sport: The President and His Adversaries (p. 368), James B. Stewart, December 1993, 1993

Let us be willing to remold society by redefining what it means to be a human being in the 20th century, moving into a new millennium.

From remarks delivered in Austin, Texas, 6 April 1993. Quoted in "Saint Hillary" by Michael Kelly, The New York Times Magazine, 23 May 1993. Accessed 24 April 2019., 1993

It saddens me that a historic event like this is being misconstrued by a small but vocal group of critics trying to spread the notion that the UN gathering is really the work of radicals and atheists bent on destroying our families.

"China, UN Seek to Put Conference Back on Track" (Reuters: September 4, 1995), 1993

You know, I'm not sitting here like some little woman standing by my man, like Tammy Wynette. I'm sitting here because I love him, and I respect him, and I honor what he's been through and what we've been through together. And you know, if that's not enough for people, then heck, don't vote for him.

60 minutes interview., 1992

I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

Response to reporter's questions (16 March 1992), reported on "Making Hillary an Issue" Nightline (26 March 1992). Quoted in Boston Globe., 1992

Children in early adolescence tend to exaggerate or romanticize sexual experiences and that adolescents with disorganized families, such as the complainant, are even more prone to such behavior.

Hillary Clinton (1975) State of Arkansas V. Thomas Alfred Taylor affidavit as quoted in Did Hillary Clinton betray a criminal client? CNN (2014/07/01)., 1975